Sigmund Faye photographs

Identifier

irn515040

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2004.349

Level of Description

Item

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn515040

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Norman Faye.

Norman Faye donated these photographs, mainly taken by his father, to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on Nov. 22, 1996.

Scope and Content

Consists of photographs taken by Captain Sigmund Faye in Jun. and Jul. 1945, in the liberated Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps. Photographs show Capt. Faye posing with survivors of the camp, and also include two official photographs taken by the "LAPI" of corpses. Also includes a photocopy of a "Beachhead News" newspaper article mentioning Capt. Faye's heroism on a rescue mission during the war. Additional "LAPI" photograph found in Photo Archives binders.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.

Genre

Document
Newspaper articles.
Photographs.

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.